progenesis

The general doctrine of development, the progenesis-theory or evolution-hypothesis (in the widest sense), as a comprehensive philosophical view of the universe, assumes that a vast, uniform, uninterrupted and eternal process of development obtains throughout all nature; and that all natural phenomena without exception, from the motions of the heavenly bodies and the fall of a rolling stone to the growth of plants and the consciousness of men, obey one and the same great law of causation; that all may be ultimately referred to the mechanics of atoms -- the mechanical or mechanistic, homogeneous or monistic view of the universe; in one word, Monism.

Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

The relation that these three great theories, which are frequently confounded, bear to one another may, according to the present position of science, be simply defined as follows: -- I. Monism, the universal theory of development, or the monistic progenesis-hypothesis, is the one only scientific theory which affords a rational interpretation of the whole universe and satisfies the craving of our human reason for causality, by bringing all natural phenomena into a mechanical causal-connection as parts of a great uniform process of evolution.

Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

I’m just making the observation that we accept that nature has led us where we are today but assume that a biological entity designed to adapt, or evolve, was its own progenesis.

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